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Saturday, September 26, 2009

T S Eliot and Jean Verdenal

In T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, we read:

'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;'They called me the hyacinth girl.'Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could notSpeak...

Cats is based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) was assumed by number of writers, such as Hart Crane and Harold Norse, to be gay.

Carole Seymour-Jones argued, in Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot (2001), that T. S. Eliot was gay.

In 1952, John Peter described Eliot's The Waste Land as a poem for a dead male lover.